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Grant Gainey edited this page Mar 15, 2018 · 1 revision

Datasouces (DRAFT)

CDN repodata

  • is available outside of Red Hat network
  • offers probably best possible availability from all sources due to distributed CDN network
  • is based on data used by Satellite 5/6 and customers
  • needs client certificate to access all repositories (this is possible to obtain)
  • needs some knowledge of repository/directory structure - continuously updated RHSM manifest with all products entitled or obtain this info from other source
  • it's not an API, requires additional layer in code to extract relevant information from yum metadata (not an issue IMHO)
  • it's generic solution, same principles can be used for providing the same errata service for other than Red Hat content (Fedora, SUSE)
  • contains probably all required information about packages, their dependencies, errata, CVEs, files etc.
  • some packages/errata in repositores might still contain incorrect data because they were produced by older version of Pulp for example

Pulp

  • communicating with Pulp server using REST API
  • concerns about speed/performance of fetching data from this single server
  • should be possible to query exactly same data as from result CDN repositories

CVRF

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